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Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph
Emanations The Art of the Cameraless Photograph Author:Geoffrey Batchen An unparalleled exploration of the art of — cameraless photography, this expansive book — offers an authoritative and lavishly illustrated — history of photography made without a camera, — along with a critical discussion of the practice. Since the early 19th century and the invention of photography, — artists have been experimenting with various met... more »hods for
creating photographs without a camera. At once exhaustive
and compelling, this book reveals the myriad approaches artists
have used to create photographic images using just paper and
a source of radiation. Simultaneously a chronological history
and a thematic study, this book explores a range of practices,
some of which have been in use for more than a century, while
others are entirely contemporary. From placing objects on
light-sensitive paper and drawing on blackened glass plates
to radiography, photocopying, and digital scanning, this is an
elemental kind of photography that repudiates the idea that
technology advances in only one direction. By eliminating
the camera, artists are able to focus on other ways of making
photographic pictures. They allow the world to leave its own
imprint, to speak for itself as itself. This volume includes 160
exquisitely reproduced works of this kind. In turns abstract
and realist, haunting and intricate, they seem to capture the
very essence of their subjects. Featuring artists from the 19th
century to today, this book explores cameraless photography
as an important and influential medium that deserves to be
included at the forefront of today's conversations about